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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... few years ago, and who are certainly not Whigs. The Whigs as a party are in fact defunct, as the young msmebers just returned w]so looled along the Treasusy Bench on Tuesday, and failed to recognise a single Whig there, muist have discovered. They no doubt ...

Published: Monday 04 January 1869
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1891 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE STATE OF POLITICAL PARTIES

... pass tht the leader of a Govern- ment, ostensibly relying on the combined support of Whigs and Radicals, reilly held his position by~ a tacit understanding between Whigs and Tories, to which many of his nominal supporters very reluctantly sub- saitted. ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1866
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2963 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Birmingham Daily Post

... designations of Whig and Tory came into use. The Tories were those who, siding with any estab- lished order of things, for the sake of what it yielded, stood out successively for Popery in religion and tyranny in rule, while the Whigs were the champions ...

Published: Monday 22 October 1866
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4299 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE REFORM BILL

... return of more popular candi- dates in the place of one or more of the present members - perhaps to replace Whigs for Tories, or Radicals for Whigs. I have therefore compiled the eubjoined table for the information or amusement of your many readers, should ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1860
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 347 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Birmingham Daily Post

... divided the two great factions of Whigs and Tories. Now, however, he contended that no such question remained. For all that concerned the public busi- ness of the nation, he held that Tories were as good as Whigs and Whigs as good as Tories, but there was ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2850 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... their families. Nor is this the case alone in the smaller boroughs. Will anyone pretend that the tenants of a Whig landlord usually vote Whig, and the tenants of a Tory landlord Tory, from mere con. viction, and that they would not often like to vote on ...

Published: Monday 08 October 1866
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1886 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

A SOCIAL MEETING Will be bold In the bchool Room

... -Hubiect, The growth cf the oatlon from D Israeli, as-i the changes, organic and otherwise, which must result from the io- of the Whig*, the establishment Political and Bely Equality, and the Formation of a powerful National Party.' AS OXFOKD~J•/ THE - WESTERN ...

Published: Tuesday 10 March 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 162 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... . He has held high the Whigs, having been Chancellor the Exehequer in the Melbourne administration, and First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Russell's Government, from 154 ( .» to 1552. When the Peelites consorted with the Whigs, place could not be found ...

Published: Monday 18 December 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1532 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE GREAT REFORM QUESTION

... difference between Tories and Whigs, [Cheerse] In this matter the Tories would not have thrown out the bill blut for «eo Amo~nco ol some enls professtg cminrerst and Whig principles. IHe sawv now that even the Heigh W~higs would rally the people against ...

Published: Tuesday 10 July 1866
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3194 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY

... support the advanced Whigs, finally joining with them in support of Mr. Canning. In 1831 his father (who had been a Secretary of State under Pitt) died, and Viscount Normauby became known as Earl of MuIl. grave, In the following year the Whigs sent him to Jamaica ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1863
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1302 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

AN AMERICAN VIEW OF THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS

... a hard fight with the Whigs, in the great lteform war; but, beaten in that contest, and beaten down, they rose again, reorganised, anil assumed the name of t'onservatives, though what there was be conserved, beyond what tlie Whigs have done—au ...

Published: Monday 21 August 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 869 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY INCIDENTS

... bread scarce while multitudes were famishing for want of work, the Tory majority raided a perfect storm of execration, and the Whigs mattered, with downcast looks, 'He ought to have retracted-' asked him next morning why he had not done so ; and he said, with ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 628 | Page: 6 | Tags: News